It doesn’t
affect you when bureaucratic zealots order a Christian baker, against
his conscience, to participate in a same-sex parody of a wedding by baking
a special cake for it. Why should you care? You’re not a baker.
You’re not one of “those Christians” who are getting
slapped down by the government they pay for.

But
that’s in the United States. In Canada—at least in the city
of Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island—now all you need, to qualify for
persecution, is some vague, undefined “association” with “divisive
groups” (Christians) that “promote homophobia and other expressions
of hate.”

On May
5 the Nanaimo City Council voted, 8-1, to ban simulcasts of a worldwide
“leadership conference” from being shown at the Vancouver
Island Conference Center, a public facility, because some unspecified
number of the “LBGT community” were “upset” by
the conference’s “associations” with “persons
and organizations with a long history of promoting homophobia,”
blah-blah. You
can see videos of this bizarre meeting here.

This
is a complicated, crazy story, and it’ll take some explaining.

The
conference in question, “Leadercast,” is held every year in
one major city and simulcast to public venues in hundreds of other cities.
Personally, I would find it unbearably dull. It’s a bunch of motivational
speakers, CEOs from big companies, and assorted celebrities of the likes
of Desmond Tutu, Laura Bush, and Condoleeza Rice, telling you how to become
a big success yourself by acquiring certain leadership skills. The chance
of any topic related to “gay” issues coming up is zero.

So why
were Nanaimo’s homosexuals so “upset” by it? Two extremely
silly reasons emerged from the discussion.

First:
One of Leadercast’s innumerable sponsors was Chick-Fil-A, whose
CEO once said he was opposed to same-sex “marriage.”

Second:
One of the featured speakers had once voiced his support for “reparative
therapy” for homosexuals. That was not what he was going to talk
about for Leadercast, but never mind. Because of his opinion on one subject,
his opinion on any subject must not be heard.

By no
means is Leadercast any kind of “Christian” conference. But
never mind—there are some Christians “associated” with
it. So the Nanaimo City Council ruled that, from now on, no one “associated”
with such “hate groups” is to have access to any public facility
in their city.

Couldn’t
that ban apply to almost anybody?

The
councilors used the rest of their time to make hysterical equations of
“Christians” with Islamic jihad groups like Bokol Haram in
Nigeria, etc. In their zeal to combat “hate,” they hate Christians.
It’s their own little jihad.

So Chick-Fil-A
equals Bokol Haram, an outfit that kills people and kidnaps girls? I fear
for the welfare of any city governed by loons who think like that.

In Nanaimo,
it seems, homosexuality has acquired a kind of sacred status. One councilor,
an old white man with white hair who likes to have his picture taken wearing
ladies’ shoes, bragged, “We have made unanimous decisions
to fly the Gay Pride flag, year after year!” Bully for you, champ.
Another, a 21-year-old black “student”—we don’t
want to know what he’s been studying—went on and on about
the Christian religion being a form of “hate.” I wonder what
his religion is.

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The
upshot of all this babble is a doctrine that makes non-persons of “Christians”
or anyone even remotely associated with them, and forbids them access
to public facilities in Nanaimo. So now you don’t have to say you’re
opposed to “gay marriage” to be silenced in Nanaimo. Maybe
you ate at Chick-Fil-A once. Maybe your cousin’s orthodontist signed
a petition against “gay marriage.” Or maybe some lesbian just
thinks you’re a bad guy. It doesn’t take much to get you banned
from public life in Nanaimo.

Gaydeology
has become the religion of the governing class throughout the Western
world. Maybe it’s God’s judgment on us. Maybe God has washed
His hands of us and given us over to a reprobate mind—as St. Paul
warned us would happen, in Romans Chapter 1.

It is
an intolerant religion, to put it so mildly as to be almost laughable.
It brooks no dissent. “Gay” is sacred, and woe to anyone who
thinks otherwise.

Lee Duigon,
a contributing editor with the Chalcedon Foundation, is a former newspaper
reporter and editor, small businessman, teacher, and horror novelist.
He has been married to his wife, Patricia, for 34 years. See his new
fantasy/adventure novels, Bell Mountain and The Cellar Beneath the Cellar,
available on www.amazon.com

In
Nanaimo, it seems, homosexuality has acquired a kind of sacred status.
One councilor, an old white man with white hair who likes to have his
picture taken wearing ladies’ shoes, bragged, “We have made
unanimous decisions to fly the Gay Pride flag, year after year!”
Bully for you, champ.